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Yes, I did not jump on it because the fairly low positive feedback. I may still go that route if Amazon does not get it back in stock soon.

If he was at Penthouse in Seattle with Mobley, there could be a recording. I would love to hear a recording with Strozier...

Probably the same. Do we have dates and personnel on these tracks?

I came across this on LRC. It claims to have two pieces with Grant Green, but the one called Blues in Green is actually Grant playing Cantaloupe Woman, and the one called Cantaloupe Woman is actually the song Extension by Attila Zoller, presumably played by him (definitely not Grant). This version of Cantaloupe Woman lasts 7:04 and is not any of the four versions Grant recorded as leader or sideman. So where is it from?

Just came across this. I can download 6 of the 8 tunes for free from my public library and am about to do so. Where can I buy the full CD? I noticed the Library site lists Lars Westin as co-leader, but there is no one by that name in the personnel above. The fact that there is a full version of Dorham's Epitaph makes it worth tracking down.

A very nice gentleman who I had the pleasure of interacting with several times. Rest in peace.

Freddie made a lot of private live recordings during his time in the DC area, some with Butch Warren. In 2020, I am completely baffled by the legality of all of this, but you can watch a lot of it on YouTube. I hope someday some audio can be officially released. Bertrand.

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First I am hearing of this track! I wonder if I can find an MP3 somewhere. Jazzdisco.org claims it is the same song as Seraphic Light from Stellar Regions. True?

I believe they are both on it. Hank takes the first solo, then Stitt. I plan to break it down a bit more in the next few days based on the timings, to identify who is playing when. I will discuss it on Facebook, but we can have that discussion here as well Two interesting things: 1. The arrangement of Just One Of Those Things is the one on the Max Roach Debut record with Hank. Hank quotes Parker's Mood in both the live and studio solos. 2. The announcer seems to suggest that another pianist took over on some tunes. But who?

Shirley Scott meets Robert Fripp.

Just preordered. She also plays Mellotron on this !?!

It was posted on YouTube then someone shared it on the Hank Mobley Facebook group.

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As I said, Blue Note is full of mysteries. So when Lion was on the verge of signing over to Liberty, he got some artists who were not already signed to Blue Note (Woody Shaw and who else) to make some recordings which were not sessions organized under the auspices of Blue Note but separately. Then, he gave the tapes back to the artists because he thought either Liberty would not sign them or Liberty said they would not sign them. Edit: Cassandranite was not recorded at the RVG studios. This story is full of holes but it does bring up another question: did any new artist join the Blue Note roster after Lion sold BN but while he was still working at Liberty i.e. between early 1966, exact date TBD, and late July 1967. We know Frank Wolff signed several artists (Tyrone Washington, Lonnie Smith) as did Duke Pearson (Frank Foster). Who decided the Tyrone Washington train wreck was unreleasable? Frank? Duke? The Liberty bean counters? Tyrone himself? And who nixed the Wayne Shorter rejected session? Wayne was supposedly not happy with it, but was he the one who said 'don't put it out'. Are there any artists who were on the BN roster under Lion who were promptly dropped when Liberty bought Blue Note? Who was really making the A & R decisions at the time? In the interview I have with Duke Pearson, he is lamenting that a lot of his records are in the can. So some bean-counter was pulling the strings. Was it Al Bennett? Some info here. The sale is announced in a press release from May 1966, and the Jody Grind was supposedly the last pre-Liberty release, although Wikipedia says it was March 1967. Someone needs to write a Blue Note book. https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/record-labels-guide/labelography-2/blue-note-liberty-years/

Will this be vinyl and download only, or will there be a CD?

This clarifies it. The Masters that were returned were for demos that were not necessarily going to lead to a Liberty/Blue Note contract. I am glad you brought it up, because now I want to see what other demos of the quality of Cassandranite could be out there. I will ask Joe Chambers next time I talk to him.

An audio clip of Hank with Bird and Stitt just popped up on YouTube!

I asked Mickey Bass on Facebook about the Algerian film music, but he does not remember that. It has been 50 years. He was at the Smithsonian concert and on the record. No one else still around from the record. Cowell still around from the concert. Not sure about Jimmy Hopps.

I am not quite following. I thought it was master tapes of Blue Note sessions that were given back to the artists? Alfred would have given Hank the tape for Slice Of The Top?

Interestingly, Hank gave a concert at the Smithsonian on 6/7/70 with Bill Hardman, Stanley Cowell, Mickey Bass and Jimmy Hopps. This is less than two months before Thinking Of Home was recorded. I have a review, but it does not talk much about the tunes played. They thought Hopps was way too loud.

Maybe it was not you who posted a YouTube link to the jam from a different year. There was definitely video though. Normally, one listens onsite, but maybe there is an offsite option these days. I will look into it...

Here is a late Mobley I missed: he is on one of the Newport all-star jams 7/6/73. I found this at the Library of Congress SONIC site, which means it can be listened to onsite. Tape is incomplete, so there may not be much there. The one identified track is Night In Tunisia. Hank was on the same concert as the Etta Jones Left Bank that recently came out, but his portion was not issued (yet?). It seems the first half of the band was the same quintet as Breakthrough, then Etta played with Cedar's trio for the second half. Hank is heard noodling behind the announce as Etta is introduced. JSngry, weren't some of these filmed?

These are all the right questions.

Curtis Fuller is still around... Kevin said: 'well... except... according to the liner notes of the Mosaic box set of Woody Shaw's Muse recordings, there was a short period in 1965 where Lion supposedly gave back a few master tapes to people he recently recorded. But if Mobley was one of them, he had the masters so he should have said that in that interview.' So are there missing tapes from this period? I am thinking Sweet Honey Bee (12/66) and Jody Grind (11/66). Lion sold the label in '66 but kept producing until the late summer of '67. My hunch is the period where Lion would have been giving back the Masters is when he was working for Liberty. It jibes with the two sessions above which we are 99% sure had to be dubbed from LP. So who would have the tapes? Horace's son for Jody Grind? Duke's son Anthony? In both cases, I think we can consider them lost. So what was the first session Alfred produced as a Liberty employee? We know the last were Procrastinator (7/14/67), Oblique (7/21/67) and a Turrentine session released in hodgepodge form (7/2867). Slice Of The Top is 3/18/66. Mobley complained it was unissued, but he did not say he had the tape... I told you there were many mysteries about Blue Note. Time to write a book.